Latest HBO Hacker Leak Focuses on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

Hackers proceed to pester HBO, however did not launch any supplies associated to the network’s hit current “Game of Thrones” of their latest leak.

The hackers, who broke into HBO’s laptop computer community and have been doling out stolen knowledge for the previous a quantity of weeks, launched extra unaired episodes, collectively with a quantity of of the extremely anticipated return of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which debuts in October.

The latest dump contains Sunday night’s episode of “Insicuro,” one other in trend show, and what appear to be episodes of utterly different lower-profile shows, collettivamente con “Ballers,” the unaired reveals “Barry” e “The Deuce,” a comedy particular and utterly different programming.

The community acknowledged the hack in late July, and the thieves have been dribbling out stolen video and paperwork since then whereas demanding a multimillion-dollar ransom .

They have leaked “Game of Thrones” scripts, delicate inner paperwork like job supply letters and a month’s worth of emails from a programming executive. But the intrusion has to this point fallen effectively wanting the chaos inflicted on Sony when the studio was hacked in 2014.

Ancora, the criminals might even be holding on to extra damaging data– each mental property, like unaired programming, and delicate private knowledge of HBO workers — that they will use as leverage to try to get money from HBO, mentioned Gartner analyst Avivah Litan.

“It’s sort of like kidnap and ransom and torture,” ha detto. “Eventually HBO might should current in.”

In an emailed assertion Sunday, HBO mentioned it is “not going to participate” in what it described as makes an try to generate consideration by dropping “bits and gadgets of stolen information.” The agency added that it was not in communication with the hackers. It has mentioned beforehand that it would not think about its e mail system as an complete was breached.